Category Archives: Africa Tech

Under-banked Senegal, home to 15,830,490 people, is about to become the second country to introduce a national digital currency, called the electronic Central African Franc (eCFA), which will have the same legal tender status as the CFA, Senegal’s traditional government-backed currency. In Tunisia, the first country to adopt a national digital currency, citizens discovered…

Imagine walking into a bank to open an account. You need this account to start a business. The friendly banker welcomes you with a warm smile and helps you choose the perfect account for your startup. Now he asks for your ID. Unsure about what to present them, suddenly you realize that you never…

Poaching has been an ongoing problem in Africa for years; however, modern technology has just evened the odds a bit for the fight to protect local wildlife. The World Wildlife Foundation has made incredible strides in developing a new and effective way to help curb poaching in Africa. The program was funded by a grant…

Morocco recently took a significant step in its goal to extract 52% of its total energy from clean sources by the year 2030. As reported by Alister Doyel of Reuters the first phase of the Noor power plant, which lies near the Moroccan town of Ouarzazate, is complete. Altogether, the first phase of Noor…

The people behind Africa’s first private satellite are probably not who you would expect. A group of teenage girls from Cape Town have designed and built a satellite that will collect information on agriculture and food security across the continent. A team of 14 girls worked as part of a project by South Africa’s…

A group of word lovers is working together with taxi drivers to bring the art of reading back to the people of Tunisia. In an effort to leverage the long commute times, taxi drivers have embraced the idea of providing a mobile library to their patrons. E-Taxi is a application that was launched…

iMonitor is a smartphone app produced in collaboration with UNAIDS. It creates a unified dashboard for HIV/AIDS patients to locate nearby counseling and medication services, receive refills, and report inappropriate stigma from health care providers. iMonitor was first introduced in Jakarta, Bangkok, the Philippines, and India. It has provided real-time updates to government and…

Elon Musk, the new solar shingle powerhouse? Tesla founder, Elon Musk, showcased his latest technology to investors, demonstrating elegance and solar efficiency. Musk took one of the sets of the popular old tv show, “Desperate Housewives,” and transformed it into a classy, seamlessly-designed solar powerhouse. The key to his marketing is to make solar…

In a very ambitious project, Google and Facebook have joined forces with the Pacific Light Cable Network to build an internet cable connection under the Pacific Ocean. The cable, which will sport over 12,800 kilometers of fiber, will connect Los Angeles to Hong Kong, making over 80 million video chats possible at one time…

While most new graduates of the ever prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have their minds set on making it big in Silicon Valley, Obinna Ukwuani’s heart was set a little closer to home. Rather than find a comfortable six-figure salary job, he has instead invested his talents in fulfilling his dream of opening…